If you aren’t aware of what favicons are, they are the little icon that appears in the corner of the address bar of your browser and along with your bookmarks. Here is a shot of SharePoint911’s favicon:

Its really a minor thing, but it makes a surprisingly big impact on a branded page. In SharePoint 2007 we had to mess around with the typical HTML tag for the favicon:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/Style Library/sp911/favicon.ico" />

But, in SharePoint 2010 there is a special control for adding favicons:

I tried all the above, and found that nothing worked. I’m a newbie on SharePoint so that doesn’t mean the actual coding is wrong. 🙂 I did find a workaround though, which didn’t involve messing around with coding. I simply replaced the default SharePoint favicon.ico with my own favicon.ico. It worked straight away and also worked on other icons used within the SharePoint site.

The icons used for all aspects of SharePoint were located in the following folder: